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Most of us remember the scene in the 1977 movie "Star Wars" in which the robot R2-D2 projects a three-dimensional image of Princess Leia, who begs Obi-Wan Kenobi for help: "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." Seeing that film years ago planted the desire in many of us to see this kind of technology brought to life. After all these long years of waiting, portable holography has finally arrived...
The Linux legal war increased in scope and ferocity this week as IBM coutersued SCO, which had claimed Big Blue wrongfully used SCO Unix source code in Linux. Meanwhile, the open-source community has almost unilaterally aligned against Lindon, Utah-based SCO by supporting the counterclaim. The IBM counterclaim, which asks the courts to stop SCO fr...
New coded exploits that take advantage of a widespread Microsoft Windows vulnerability have been posted online. By most reports, malicious scans to expose vulnerable systems are running rampant a week after government warnings regarding the flaw Security experts said the scans for the vulnerability -- which involves a flaw in the Remote Procedure C...
Marking the end of an overseas battle between Internet heavyweights, Yahoo has announced plans to shutter its Australian auction site and direct users to rival eBay. Specifically, the company said it will close the site, known as Sold.com, later this month "We recommend that in the future, our customers try out the great service offered by eBay, ou...
Digital this, digital that. What about analog? We are awash in a sea of zeroes and ones, and it's tempting to assume that analog electronics are set to become history. However, most digital devices still do require analog circuitry, so several companies have specialized in the design and manufacture of analog components. National Semiconductor, based in Santa Clara, California, is one of the major players.
Undeterred by the hard line laid down by the European Commission in its antitrust case against Microsoft, the software company on Wednesday announced its hardware partners will be expanding the distribution of Media Center PCs in Europe and Asia The company's Media Center PC, a hardware-software combination introduced in North America last year, us...
Real-time data mining -- powered by neural-network technology -- has begun to remake the way large corporations manage customer accounts. The technology has been helping companies gain deep insight into customer purchasing patterns. While the technology is just now beginning to gain appeal, research to develop neural networks was started years ago...
IBM has added to the legal mix in its fight over source code claims by Lindon, Utah-based SCO Group, with a counterclaim against the smaller software company filed in court Thursday. IBM's complaint refutes SCO's arguments about solicitation of Linux licenses and returns the legal favor by claiming SCO's commercially available software has directl...
In a bid to speed development of the next generation of computer chips while also easing the financial burden of related research, IBM has announced it will ally with Chartered Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies to develop 65-nanometer (nm) chip-making capabilities. The multiyear deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, calls for ea...
Even in the ever-changing technology world, companies that hold 80 percent market share typically can breathe easy. However, that is not the case at Citrix Systems. The maker of MetaFrame thin-client software, which lets PC users access applications that run remotely on servers, is seeing its long-standing cooperation with Microsoft turning into strong "coopetition." Moreover, threats from smaller companies, such as Tarantella, are growing...
Seeking to target the embedded applications market, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has announced the acquisition of National Semiconductor's Information Appliance (IA) unit and the Geode family of microprocessors AMD said the deal, terms of which were not disclosed, will make it the only company with the resources to deliver a standard architectu...
Referring to new evidence in its investigation of Microsoft's anticompetitive practices, the European Union's commission in Washington, D.C., has offered the software company one last opportunity to respond before pursuing remedies The European Commission, which has conducted an antitrust probe of Microsoft for about five years, said new evidence f...
It's only a matter of time. After all, with Yahoo scooping up Overture, and every smaller search engine on the face of the earth already consumed by a larger player, it appears that the immovable object and the irresistible force will have to come together at some point. Sure, Yahoo and Google could continue to wage their own battles, with Google ...
While declaring that open source has limitations, Sun Microsystems nevertheless is moving to capitalize on the method's popularity, saying it will develop an open-source desktop environment that is a low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Windows. Sun unveiled its Project Mad Hatter at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, b...
The ability to change prices in the blink of an eye, instantly responding to market fluctuations, seems as if it would be an attractive tactic to online retailers. However, so-called dynamic pricing has not caught on yet in the e-commerce world It is not as if the process of implementing this feature is complicated -- it can be done using existing ...
A sense of deja vu is sweeping through IBM's executive offices. Hardware, a category of computer technology that has been commoditized over the past several years because of falling prices, once again has become sexy -- so sexy, in fact, that it has become the linchpin in IBM's quest to maintain its position as one of the industry's most important vendors...
SCO has announced that it will sell intellectual property (IP) licenses to make it legal for enterprises to run Linux, which allegedly uses portions of SCO's proprietary Unix source code SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell told the E-Commerce Times that this license covers the company's IP rights in Linux 2.4 kernels and later -- almost every Linux dist...
The next major step for Linux might be to penetrate higher-security computing environments, primarily in government and financial services, thanks to a certification achieved by an open-source configuration from SuSE and IBM, the companies said Calling it "the first ever security certification of Linux," Big Blue and German software maker SuSE said...
Leading Linux vendor Red Hat has filed suit against The SCO Group, aiming to prove that Red Hat software does not infringe on SCO patents and to stop SCO from making what it called "untrue" statements. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based firm also announced plans to establish a US$1 million legal defense fund to help smaller firms battle SCO in cour...
2003 was supposed to be the year of the PC upgrade. Last fall, as analysts fretted over a PC market that had lain fallow for two years, observers counseled that the coming year might prove rosy, with an upgrade cycle driven by, among other catalysts, a new version of Microsoft Office More than halfway through the year, however, a jump in PC sales i...
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